The jury for Spectrum 23: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art has announced nominees in eight categories. The list was created by judges David Palumbo, Cynthia Sheppard, Kirk Thatcher, Charlie Wen and Terryl Whitlatch. Winners of the Gold and Silver Awards will be announced at the Spectrum 23 Awards Ceremony, held at the Society of Illustrators in New York City on Saturday, May 7. The 2016 Spectrum Grand Master Award honoree will also be announced during the ceremony.

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Nico Delort for “The Blessing of Athena”

Bartosz Kosowski for “Discworld”

Colin Poole for “Vishnu’s Third Avatar”

Andrew Thompson for “Glitch”

Joseph Qiu for “24 Hour Movie Marathon”

Book

Chris Ayers for Munchasaurus Rex

Rovina Cai for Tom, Thom

Donato Giancola for Vesuvius

Karla Ortiz for Sorcerer of the Wildeeps

Annie Stegg Gerard for Renard and the Strawberries

Comic

Daren Bader for Tribes of Kai, page 41

Gael Bertrand for Island #4 cover

Tyler Crook for Harrow County #1 cover

Nic Klein for Drifter

Paolo Rivera for Hellboy 1953

Concept Art

Mirko Failoni for “The Mushroom Forest”

Te Hu for “Journey to West”

Vance Kovacs for “King Louie’s Court”

Seth Rutledge for “Window View”

Dejian Wu for “Dragon Island”

Dimensional

Akihito for “Death Wings”

Thomas Kuebler for “Adelpha and Her Sister”

Patrick Masson for “The Blind Death”

Forest Rogers for “The Morrigan”

Dug Stanat for “Meeting Master Jones”

Editorial

Donato Giancola for “Empathy”

Tran Nguyen for “Traveling To a Distant Day”

Greg Ruth for “Finnegan’s Field”

Chris Seaman for “Family Portraithausen: A Tribute to Ray Harryhausen”